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This would be run privately by people who can afford to support slaves. This would include food, medical, as well as education for the slaves and their families.

I think that forced slavery and voluntary slavery are two seperate forms. The former is what the USA had prior to 1865 or so. Voluntary slavery is actually called Indentured Servitude, and is more like what the OT laws were regarding bought families or single individuals.

2Th 3:7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,
2Th 3:8 nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;
2Th 3:9 not because we do not have the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example.
2Th 3:10 For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.
2Th 3:11 For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.
2Th 3:12 Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread.

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Matthew Henry

2Th 3:6-15 -
Those who have received the gospel, are to live according to the gospel. Such as could work, and would not, were not to be maintained in idleness. Christianity is not to countenance slothfulness, which would consume what is meant to encourage the industrious, and to support the sick and afflicted. Industry in our callings as men, is a duty required by our calling as Christians. But some expected to be maintained in idleness, and indulged a curious and conceited temper. They meddled with the concerns of others, and did much harm. It is a great error and abuse of religion, to make it a cloak for idleness or any other sin.

Those who chose indentured servitude were also required to follow the 'religion of the house' so to speak as well, under OT laws concerning this practice. These people also had basic 'rights' and were not mere property like cattle.


God bless,

william